Holy Thursday
It was a meal that gave Jesus’ disciples a lot more than they expected.
They had prepared a Passover meal, eager to celebrate this great feast of God’s liberation of their people with their Master. Jesus, unexpectedly, redefined the meal. He would be their Passover lamb. His own sacrifice would be the means by which humanity would be reconciled with God. The disciples, on their part, were to reenact this new Passover in memory of what Jesus was about to do. “What did this mean?”, the disciples must have wondered.
But there was more. Continue reading “Gethsemane”